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@ziakitty.bsky.social

I do K-12 STEM outreach at Caltech. Favorite topics include but not limited to: science, education, politics, parenting, social justice, being outdoors, dogs, climate change, Hatch green chile, dystopic fiction, dystopic reality. Trans ally.

89 Followers  |  184 Following  |  9 Posts  |  Joined: 10.07.2023  |  1.8045

Latest posts by ziakitty.bsky.social on Bluesky

one year and everyone is so sick of your boy that Virginia is starting to look like Massachusetts and a democratic socialist won a million votes in NYC, get fucked

05.11.2025 03:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2430    πŸ” 339    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 6
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Pediatric Brain Cancer Group to Lose Federal Funding

The US Administration has decided to destroy a top network for clinical trials to test new treatments for children with brain cancer.

This is another atrocity that will harm Conservative and Liberal Americans, long after the politicians responsible are gone.

30.08.2025 13:23 β€” πŸ‘ 602    πŸ” 381    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 95

Do the powers that be at NPR hope that giving the Heritage Foundation so much air time to blather about how they think the ICE raids are going swimmingly will result in getting their funding back?

11.06.2025 22:39 β€” πŸ‘ 315    πŸ” 56    πŸ’¬ 24    πŸ“Œ 7

I was yelling at my radio. Really? The architects of Project 2025 are going to tell the truth about what's happening here in LA?

12.06.2025 01:41 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I was curious how these ideas are "taught," so I visited the Creation Museum in 2016. They have created a perfect blend of cherry-picked science with only the most convenient theology; a toxic soup of pseudoscience. We on science's side all need to understand that this is what we're up against.

16.04.2025 22:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I work at an R1 STEM uni, and I'm shocked at how many scientists don't know the Creation Museum exists, and how it was located 8 hours or less drive from 2/3s of the US population. It's important to understand how pervasive these unscientific ideas are, and how they're being promoted.

16.04.2025 21:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Still thinking about Newsom. For a Democratic leader to consent to a framework that portrays trans people as a group that is trying to take something away from other people is flatly unforgivable. It is what the right does. And a Democrat who will do it to one group will do it to any group.

08.03.2025 04:20 β€” πŸ‘ 4262    πŸ” 738    πŸ’¬ 118    πŸ“Œ 40
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CA Gov Gavin Newsom "Completely Aligns" With Charlie Kirk On Trans Issues In Podcast The California Governor, in the launch of his new podcast, announced that he completely aligned with far-right, ant-LGBTQ+ influencer Charlie Kirk on sports, and agreed on prisons and youth care.

1. This morning, California Governor said he was in "complete alignment" with anti-LGBTQ+ hate-influencer Charlie Kirk of TPUSA on transgender sports.

He also conceded on trans inmates and gender affirming care for youth.

It's so much worse than being reported.

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06.03.2025 16:58 β€” πŸ‘ 5951    πŸ” 1875    πŸ’¬ 370    πŸ“Œ 917

My trans kid and I both wrote him strongly-worded letters. I'm in California and until now thought he was an ally, this took me completely be surprise. I won't support his candidacy for any office ever again short of a complete retraction and some material support for trans athletes here.

07.03.2025 19:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Powerful Speeches From Trans Dems Flip 29 Republicans, Anti-Trans Bills Die In Montana Transgender Reps Zooey Zephyr and SJ Howell delivered powerful speeches on the Montana House floor on Thursday. Republicans defected en masse to join them in voting against anti-trans bills.

1. Today, powerful speeches from trans representatives in Montana SJ Howell and Zooey Zephyr flipped 29 Republicans, killing anti-trans bills.

While some Dems like Newsom abandon trans people, these reps show the power of representation.

Watch their speech.

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07.03.2025 00:09 β€” πŸ‘ 10014    πŸ” 2545    πŸ’¬ 116    πŸ“Œ 169

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

05.03.2025 22:34 β€” πŸ‘ 97056    πŸ” 26825    πŸ’¬ 1547    πŸ“Œ 1263
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My letter to my governor today. Y'all better let him know how you feel about him, too, because either he really does hold anti-trans views, or he thinks playing with the Charlie Kirks of the world will win him MAGA votes, and I'm not OK with either of those being true.

06.03.2025 21:48 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I have a theory about why, beyond just being people, much of US scientific leadership was caught so flat-footed and is displaying Neville Chamberlain-tier wet kleenex resolve in defense of our institutions and values.

03.03.2025 14:16 β€” πŸ‘ 103    πŸ” 31    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 11
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RFK JR on Measles Outbreaks just now: "It is not unusual. There are measles outbreaks every year."

It is actually very unusual. This is the first Measles death in the US in 10 years.

26.02.2025 18:16 β€” πŸ‘ 10515    πŸ” 3307    πŸ’¬ 872    πŸ“Œ 394
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Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, itΒ isΒ hereby ordered: Section 1.

"assess the prevalence of and threat posed by the prescription of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, stimulants, and weight-loss drugs"

good time time become an antipsychiatry grifter in the US

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

13.02.2025 21:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1752    πŸ” 521    πŸ’¬ 320    πŸ“Œ 1739

My neighbor was using his blower even after I told him it was toxic and that blowers were banned. It's scary to know how much more of this was drifting into our house because of him than already was.

22.01.2025 01:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Currently evac'd from my Pasadena home, hoping for the wind to stop and that no more people lose their homes, school, worship house, workplaces...

08.01.2025 08:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Senate passes defense policy bill that bans gender-affirming care for transgender children of service members | CNN Politics The Senate voted on Wednesday to pass a critical defense policy bill known as the National Defense Authorization Act, which includes a ban against gender-affirming care for transgender children of ser...

Only ELEVEN Democrats voted against this bill which strips trans kids of their healthcare. Eleven. As the party lurches forward with a collaboration-with-Trump plan, we have officially been abandoned.
www.cnn.com/2024/12/18/p...

18.12.2024 18:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1202    πŸ” 445    πŸ’¬ 52    πŸ“Œ 157
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Murder, America, and the French Revolution The killing of the UnitedHealthcare CEO is a dangerous moment.

TLDR: The killing of the UHC CEO has the hallmarks of a class war, and class wars are more dangerous for all of us than political strife.
Murder, America, and the French Revolution www.thebulwark.com/p/murder-ame...

10.12.2024 19:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My daughter is a trans woman.

Here is a comprehensive list of people and institutions she's harming by identifying as a different gender than she did as a child:

22.10.2024 15:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2381    πŸ” 392    πŸ’¬ 47    πŸ“Œ 14
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It's illegal in CA for employers to prevent employees from wearing face coverings

14.07.2023 19:10 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Only 10% of national TV news segments about the catastrophic flooding in the Northeast mentioned cli... During coverage of the recent catastrophic flooding across the Northeast, major TV news networks mostly largely ignored clear climate signals linking the historic extreme weather event to global warmi...

ABC, CBS, and NBC aired a combined 1 hour and 14 minutes of coverage across 50 segments that discussed the record Northeast flooding. Only *one* of those segments mentioned climate change.

14.07.2023 17:55 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

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